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West, Kelsey L.; Fletcher, Katelyn K.; Adolph, Karen E.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Infants learn nouns during object-naming events--moments when caregivers name the object of infants' play (e.g., ball as infant holds a ball). Do caregivers also label the actions of infants' play (e.g., roll as infant rolls a ball)? We investigated connections between mothers' verb inputs and infants' actions. We video-recorded 32 infant-mother…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Child Behavior, Verbs
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Franchak, John M.; Kretch, Kari S.; Soska, Kasey C.; Adolph, Karen E. – Child Development, 2011
Despite hundreds of studies describing infants' visual exploration of experimental stimuli, researchers know little about where infants look during everyday interactions. The current study describes the first method for studying visual behavior during natural interactions in mobile infants. Six 14-month-old infants wore a head-mounted eye-tracker…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Infants, Eye Movements
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Mondschein, Emily R.; Adolph, Karen E.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Examined influence of child's sex on mothers' expectations about their 11-month-olds' motor development. Found that mothers of girls underestimated their performance on the novel task of crawling down steep and shallow slopes and mothers of boys overestimated their performance. Girls and boys exhibited identical levels of motor performance during…
Descriptors: Expectation, Infant Behavior, Infants, Mothers